distCayley {Rankcluster}R Documentation

Cayley distance between two ranks

Description

The Cayley distance between two ranks x and y is the minimum number of transpositions required to transform the ranking x into y.

Usage

distCayley(x, y)

Arguments

x, y

two ranks of size m.

Value

the Cayley distance between x and y.

Author(s)

Julien Jacques

See Also

Other distance: distHamming(), distKendall(), distSpearman()

Examples

x <- 1:5
y <- c(2, 3, 1, 4, 5)
distCayley(x, y)


[Package Rankcluster version 0.98.0 Index]